Guerilla Toss - Life’s a Zoo feat. Stephen Malkmus and Ben Katzman

What this video is

Released July 2025 as a single from Guerilla Toss's fifth album You're Weird Now (Sub Pop, September 12, 2025), 'Life's a Zoo' represents a high-water mark of 2020s experimental indie maximalism. The album was produced by Stephen Malkmus (Pavement, The Jicks) and recorded at The Barn, Trey Anastasio of Phish's Vermont studio — a confluence of indie rock lineages rarely assembled. Ben Katzman, a former band member…

Why it matters

A landmark 2025 example of zolo/neo-psychedelic dance-punk achieving commercial accessibility without aesthetic compromise. The track's dense layering of chiptune hooks, jazz breaks, and cheerleader chants — with Pavement's Stephen Malkmus producing — bridges 90s indie rock heritage and 2020s…

The director

Marcus Brooks is a New York-based director, cinematographer, and photographer who studied Studio Art and Photography at the University of Texas in Austin. In 2002 he held a residency at the Centro de la Imagen in Mexico City. He moved to New York in 2003,…